Olegario Pabon, 84, died after getting caught in a lurching elevator at the Boston Road Houses on Christmas Eve of 2015.

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A Department of Investigation probe found that a fail safe device called a brake monitor had been disabled in the elevator, and that NYCHA was notified the elevator was malfunctioning dangerously 90 minutes before the incident, but did nothing.

One of the bills set to be introduced Wednesday in the City Council would require building owners to inspect brake monitors at least once a year and make sure they are working.

"It's a matter of life and death," said Councilman Ritchie Torres (D-Bronx), who is introducing the package of legislation along with Councilman Jimmy Vacca.

"It was a product of policy failures," Torres, the chair of the public housing committee, added of the Bronx tragedy. "If NYCHA had the right policy in place, his death would have been prevented."

Another bill would require a report on whether it would be possible to install brake monitors in the elevators of all residential buildings that don't have them. Older buildings sometimes lack the devices.

Olegario Pabon (r.), 81, died after getting caught in a lurching elevator at the Boston Road Houses on Christmas Eve of 2015. (Michael Schwartz/for New York Daily News)

The Department of Buildings would also be required to appoint a watchdog assigned to keeping an eye on NYCHA's compliance with construction and building codes, and take and investigsate complaints from the public about alleged violations.

A fourth bill would require the NYPD and FDNY to promptly notify NYCHA of a death that happens on its property.

"Safety is our number one priority. Over the past year, NYCHA has taken decisive action to improve elevator procedures, including new protocols for inspecting elevator brake monitors, new safety training programs for staff at all levels, and enhanced inspections," said spokeswoman Zodet Negron. "We will review the bills once introduced, and look forward to working with the City Council to make our communities safer."

When Pabon was killed, NYCHA senior management did not find out until four days after the accident. A mechanic who shut down the elevator told his foreman that tenants had told him someone was seriously hurt, but the foreman didn't pass on the information.

In another accident at the Morris Houses in the Bronx three weeks before the Boston Road tragedy, a tenant fractured his foot in a faulty elevator.

The brake monitor there was later found to be missing bolts needed to activate it.